TRK 1 Advanced Computational Mechanics
	Nicolas Moës is a professor at the École Centrale of Nantes, France, since 2001. He gained his research experience under the guidance of Professors Pierre Ladevèze (as a Ph.D. student), Tinsley Oden (as a post-doctoral fellow) and Ted Belytschko (as a research assistant professor). It is during his stay at Northwestern University that the Extended Finite Element method (X-FEM) was introduced. This method is an extension of the finite element method to handle cracks and more generally any discontinuity surfaces without the need to exactly mesh the surface. More recently, he introduced a new way to model damage and transition to fracture through a so-called thick level set (TLS). This contribution is both theoretical and numerical. He received the Mandel prize in 2003, the IACM young investigator award in 2006 and was made fellow of the IACM in 2008. Currently, he is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
	Dr. Bernhard Schrefler is a professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Padua and Secretary General of CISM. He obtained his Ph.D. and D.Sc. at the University of Wales. He received honorary doctorates from the St.Petersburg State Technical University, from the University of Technology in Lodz, from the University of Wales-Swansea, from the Leibniz University of Hanover, from the Russian Academy of Sciences and from the École Normale Superieure. He is a recipient of the Computational Mechanics Award, the IACM Award, the Biot Medal of ASCE and the Euler Medal of ECCOMAS. He has published over 200 papers in refereed Journals on structural engineering, soil mechanics, environmental mechanics, and biomechanics and on technology for nuclear fusion, and has written or edited 34 books. His main research interests are in multi-scale analysis and porous media mechanics including environmental geomechanics.
TRK 2 Advanced Simulation-Based Engineering Sciences
	Elías Cueto obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Oviedo, while his doctoral degree was obtained at the University of Zaragoza in 2001, with a thesis about the Natural Element Method. He was an assistant professor at the University of Oviedo and, since then, has taught at the University of Zaragoza, where he is currently a full professor. He has been an invited professor at the École Centrale de Nantes, France, and the University of Seville, Spain. Prof. Cueto has served as elected member of the Executive Council of the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI), and the Board of Directors of the European Scientific Association of Material Forming (ESAFORM). He is or has been member of the editorial board of several journals like the International Journal of Material Forming, where he serves as an associate editor, the European Journal of Computational Mechanics, or the Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería. Prof. Cueto has published three books and more than 50 papers in different international journals, along with more than 100 contributions to international conferences. This work has been awarded with the Juan C. Simo prize.
	Adrien Leygue graduated as an Engineer in Applied Mathematics from UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He holds a PhD from the same university in the field of constitutive modelling of polymeric systems. Since 2005 he has worked in the broad field of Model Reduction. During a post-doctoral stay in Athens in the team of Prof. T. N. Theodorou he has investigated the application of the Iterative Boltzmann Inversion Method to liquid crystalline systems. Since 2008 he is a CNRS researcher at the École Centrale Nantes (France). In collaboration with Prof. F. Chinesta he has greatly contributed to both the development of the Proper Generalized Decomposition method (PGD) and its use in a broad variety of domains. The PGD offers today a radical change of paradigm in the field of numerical simulations, allowing the solution of problems that are otherwise intractable using classical numerical methods, even on the most powerful supercomputers. In particular he has contributed to the application of the method to large-scale thermal and thermo-elastic problems. His current research focuses, among others, on the efficient solution of large scale coupled problems, the solution of inverse and optimization problems and real time computations for system control and identification.
TRK 3 Virtual and Augmented Reality
	Hideo Saito is a full professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University, Japan, since 2006. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1992. After that, he has been on the faculty of Keio University. In 1997 to 1999, he was a visiting researcher in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He recently served as the general co-chair of ICAT2008, MVA2009, and AH2010. He is now a steering committee member of ISMAR (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality). He is a fellow of VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan).
	Guillaume Moreau obtained his Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 from Rennes University. After a first position at École des mines de Paris, he moved as Associate Professor at École Centrale de Nantes in 2002, where he became a full Professor in 2011. His research activity takes place at the CERMA laboratory which studies the "atmospheres" of architectural and urban environments. He is currently head of the computer science team of the lab. His research covers various activities in the fields of virtual reality, from the integration of autonomous human beings to human perception in virtual environments (at the psychophysics, functional or sensitive level). He currently studies the link between digital images and information systems through virtual environments and augmented reality. He has been responsible for several projects of introduction of VR/AR techniques in the design process for industries such as car manufacturers or urban planners.
TRK 4 Applied Solid Mechanics and Material Processing
	K. Saanouni, born in 1955 in Tunisia, is a distinguished professor of applied and computational mechanics at the University of Technology of Troyes (France), where he founded and leads a research group working on advanced modeling in virtual metal forming. He is teaching the theoretical and computational nonlinear mechanics with application to metal forming by large inelastic strains with ductile damage. At the international level, Prof. K. Saanouni was invited as a scientist at different universities as in Japan (1989, 1990) and in China (1992) and as invited professor since many years at ENIM/Tunisia (1999-2005) and at ESSTT/Tunisia since 2002. Prof. K. Saanouni is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications with around 80 papers in major peer-reviewed journals in the field of applied and computational mechanics. On the other hand, Prof K. Saanouni is the advisor of a total of 29 Ph.D. theses (4 are now under progress) in the field of nonlinear computational mechanics dedicated mainly to sheet and bulk metal forming simulation. He is a member of the editorial board of two international journals: IJDM, ISSN: 1056-7895 (since 1999) and IJFO, ISSN: 12692-7775 (2001-2006), and a member of the organizing committee of more than 35 scientific events.
	Jean-Philippe Ponthot is a Professor at the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department, chair of Computational Mechanics at the University of Liège, Belgium. He was graduated as a Ph-D at the University of Liège and was then a Research fellow with Prof. Ted Belytschko at Northwestern University. He is vice-president of SKYWIN, the Belgian aerospace cluster and a member of the Belgian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His research activities deal with numerical methods development of thermo mechanical problems involving large strains in a multiphysics context. The main domain of applications are metal forming, crash and impact of composite and metallic structures as well as biomechanics.
TRK 5 Applied Fluid Mechanics
	Prof. Laurent Dala is Head of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He graduated from the French Grandes Écoles, ESTP in 1988 and ESTA in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Aerodynamics from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1997 and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), Chartered Engineer, European Chartered Engineer (Eur-Ing), Member of the Aerodynamics Specialist Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Before moving to South Africa, he was a Member of the RAeS Accreditation Panel and a Member of the International Accreditation Panel (ECUK). For the last 20 years, he has developed international experience in the aerospace industry and did research as a Senior Aerodynamicist at ONERA (France); Chief Aerodynamicist and Deputy Head of Flight Science Division at CargoLifter (Germany), Design Approved Engineer in Aerodynamics; Aerodynamics Specialist at Institut AéroTechnique (IAT/CNAM); and at the Aircraft Research Association Ltd (UK). This has allowed him to have a close association with notable Eastern European institutes like TsAGI (Russia) and the Warsaw University of Technology. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Group for the European Project New Aircraft Concepts Research (NACRE) European Commission Framework Programme for the past 5 years.
	Professor Aziz Hamdouni, 46, is a researcher at the University of La Rochelle, France. He received his PhD in Mechanics from the Univerity of Poitiers, France, in 1993, and his Habilitation in Theoretical Mechanics in 1997. His principal research areas are fluid-structure interaction, turbulence modelling and geometrical methods in mechanics in fluid mechanic (Lie groups and algebra, symmetry group). He is the co-author of two books on fluid structure interaction and more than 60 articles in journals dedicated to problems of modelisation in solid and fluid mechanics and to applied mathematics. He is the current Director of the Doctoral School Gay Lussac, which assembles the Universities of Limoges, Poitiers and La Rochelle.
TRK 6 Electromechanical Systems and Mechatronics
	Shaoping Wang is Professor and Vice Dean of School of Automation Science and Electric Engineering, Beihang University, China. She is the visiting professor of Purdue University US, École Central de Lille France, Cocondia University Canada and SMC Japan. Her research interests include mechatronics, reliability engineering, fault-tolerant control, system simulation, fault diagnosis and reconfiguration, flight by light, design and optimization of flight control system, accelerated life testing, fluid power and transmission, and product life-cycle management.
	Gabriel Abba has joined the "École Normale Supérieure de Cachan," France, in 1979, and received the "agrégation" of Ministry of Education in Electrical Engineering in 1982. He received the Doctorate degree in Electronics and Robotics from the University of Paris XI-Orsay, Paris, France, in 1986. Since 2004, he has been at the "École National d'Ingénieurs de Metz," where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include development, modeling and control of robots, specially control of legged robots, visual servoing, manipulator control, design of robots and modeling and control of electromechanical actuators for industrial applications. He has made many contributions to robot dynamics and legged locomotion, and he has over 60 publications in Journals or Conferences.
TRK 7 Advanced Energy Systems
	Dr. Vittorio Verda is associate professor at Department of Energy Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. Dr. Verda received his Ph.D. in Energy Engineering in a dual degree from both the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Dr. Verda's research covers a number of different fields including thermodynamics, heat transfer, the thermoeconomic analysis and diagnosis of energy conversion systems, fuel cells, and computational fluid dynamics. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Thermodynamics. In 2003, he was awarded the ASME Edward F. Obert Award.
	Michel Louis Feidt is a Professor of Thermal Engineering, a researcher at the University of Nancy France and he is the author of many books. The first one is "Thermodynamique et Optimisation Energétique des Systèmes et Procédés," (1987). He has many published scientific papers (more than 120 papers) and communications in international congresses (more than 250 communications). He is a member of various scientific committees of Conferences and he is the Editor of several scientific journals. The main parts of his scientific works are devoted to thermodynamics and optimization of energy systems and processes. He focuses on optimization of heat exchangers in systems and processes from a design point of view, but also for control and command.
TRK 8 Thermal Engineering
	Fabrice Mario Schmidt was born in 1963. He obtained a Ph.D. at École des Mines de Paris (CEMEF) in 1995 in "Experimental and numerical studies of the stretch-blow molding process", and then joined the École des Mines d'Albi (France), a school Engineering specialized in Process Engineering. He was head of "Modeling, Computing and Optimization" group and then "Materials, Structure and Composites" group from 2003 to 2009. His research activities are at the crossing point between polymer processing, mechanics, radiation heat transfer and numerical modeling. Infrared heating modeling using ray tracing method is one of his major interests. In addition, he has promoted the use of Boundary Element Method in order to simulate liquid composites infusion and heat transfer. He organized or chaired some minisymposia during international conferences such as NUMIFORM, ESAFORM, PPS, AMPT. He is author or co-author of over 40 publications in journals and 80 communications in conferences, as well as a book chapter entitled "Optimization in Polymer Processing," edited by A. Gaspar-Cunha and J.A. Covas, Eds., Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
	Dr. Gary Menary obtained his PhD in 2001 at the Queen's University of Belfast on "Modelling of injection stretch blow moulding and the resulting in-service performance of PET containers." His research has continued on this theme with the focus on simulation and in process measurement of polymer forming processes such as stretch blow moulding and thermoforming. The research includes, constitutive modelling, inverse analysis, optimisation and process simulation. He has a special interest in heating of polymers via infra red radiation having been involved in the design and development of a new temperature measurement device for the stretch blow moulding industry (www.bmt-ni.com). He was the conference chairman of ESAFORM 2011, has co-organised the polymer processing sessions at ESAFORM since 2007 and has over 50 publications.
	Vincent Sobotka graduated in Thermal Engineering from Polytech Nantes in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 at Nantes University on "Heat transfer optimization in resin transfer molding process." He has been an associate professor at Polytech Nantes since 2005. His research interests are related to heat transfer in polymer materials and composites. It contributes to the development of experimental apparatus for the characterization of thermal properties of these materials in conditions representative of those met in industrial process. He also works on optimal design for the cooling systems in injection processes.
TRK 9 Advanced Composite Materials and Processing
	A. Poitou has a Ph.D. from Rhone Poulen Company. He joined the Renault Car Company, then comes in 1989 at ENS Cachan - LMT as assistant, associate and full professor. In 2002, he arrived at École Centrale de Nantes - GeM. He is currently director of GeM Institut and staff at Technocampus EMC2 composite joint center with Airbus, CETIM and EADS. His main present activities are in composite processing.
	Dr. Khalid Lafdi is Wright Brothers Institute endowed chair in nanomaterials, Professor in of chemical and materials engineering at University of Dayton and group leader for carbon materials in the University's Research Institute. He obtained his MS, PhD and habilitation from France (1991). He is a recipient of the American Carbon Society's George D. Graffin Lecturer Award, Wohlleben-Hochwalt Award and nominated for the ACS Charles E. Petinous Award. He has published over 200 papers in refereed Journals on carbon science and engineering from micro-scale to nano-metric scale with strong focus on the processing and characterization of multifunctional composites, hybrids, thermal and energy managements and implants and scaffolds for medical applications. He has written or edited 4 books and holds 6 patents.
TRK 10 Advanced Manufacturing Processes
	Paulo Bártolo has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Reading (UK), and an MSc and "Licenciatura" both on Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal). Currently, he is a Professor of Advanced Manufacturing Processes at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal), Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Professor of the Cátedra UNESCO of Biomaterials at the University of Habana (Cuba), Member of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Biomanufacturing, Portuguese delegate at the Global Alliance of Rapid Prototyping Associations (GARPA), International partner of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (USA). Paulo Bártolo has been the Chair of the International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP2011, VRAP2009, VRAP2007, VRAP 2005 and VRAP 2003) and Co-Chair of the ECOMAS Thematic Conference on Tissue Engineering. He served as a member of the Scientific Committee of 35 international conferences.
	Jean-Yves Hascoët is Professor at École Centrale Nantes, France since 2000. He is member of the Research institute IRCCyN-CNRS unit. His research topics are HSM, CAD-CAM, Rapid Manufacturing (Additive Manufacturing, ISF and welding process) and Parallel Kinematic Machine. He is in charge of an experimental Rapid Manufacturing Platform (PKM HSM Milling machine, turning machines, ISF and Clad Additive Manufacturing). This platform is common to two CNRS Institutes (IRCCyN and GeM/ECN campus). He contributed to the technical group ISO 184/SC1 committee on the development of a new model for the NC machining programming via the Step-NC protocol.
TRK 11 Robotics
	Philippe Wenger graduated in Mechanical Engineering from École Centrale de Nantes in 1985 and obtained his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Nantes in 1989. He served as an Assistant Professor from 1989 to 1990. Since 1991, he has been a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) researcher at Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN). He is responsible for the Robotics team at IRCCyN that comprises 15 full time academic staff, 10 post-doctoral researchers and 20 Ph.D. students. He designed and teaches several master robotics courses at École Centrale de Nantes. His research interests span a wide range of robotic research, including innovative design of robots and kinematic analysis.
	Marco Carricato was born in Italy, on December 6, 1973. He received the Laurea degree (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Machines from the University of Bologna, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. He was visiting researcher at the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics of the University of Florida, USA, from January 1998 to June 1998, at the Robotics Laboratory of the Laval University, Canada, from March 2007 to August 2007, at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, from January 2008 to June 2008, and at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, Sophia Antipolis, France, from May 2009 to August 2009. His research interests include the theory of mechanisms and robotic systems, with a particular emphasis on parallel manipulators (displacement analysis, kinematics, dynamics, synthesis and gravity compensation), the catastrophic behavior of compliant mechanisms, the theory of screws and the theory of homokinetic couplings. His work in the aforementioned areas has been the subject of a number of scientific publications in international conferences and journals.
TRK 12 Dynamical Systems and Control
	Franck Plestan received the Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the École Centrale de Nantes, France, in 1995. After being at University of Strasbourg, France, from 1996 to 2000, he joined the École Centrale de Nantes and IRCCyN, Nantes, France where he is currently Professor and deputy director of IRCCyN. His research interests include robust nonlinear control and observer, especially through high order sliding mode control theory, and control of electromechanical and mechanical systems. He published more than 100 articles in journals and conferences. He is currently a member of the IEEE/Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode. He received in 2002 the Georg Axelby Oustanding Paper Award for the best paper published in IEEE/Transactions on Automatic Control in 2000 and 2001 (paper co-authored with J.W. Grizzle and G. Abba).
	Yoram Halevi is a Professor and the James H. (Jimmy) Belfer Chair in Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. He had visiting positions at Penn State, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, University of French Comte, and CNR-ITIA in Milan. He was the General Chair of the 9th ESDA Conference in Haifa, Israel, in 2008. His main research areas are dynamic systems and control with special interest in the fields of control of flexible structures, optimal control, model order reduction and model updating.
TRK 13 Information Management & PLM
	Abdelaziz Bouras is a professor at the University Lumiere of Lyon, France, where he is leading a research team on information system for global product development. His main area of interest is modeling and simulation of decision support systems, with particular emphasis on product and service life cycle management. Abdelaziz leaded several projects on PLM implementations and is the Editor-In-Chief of the Int. J. of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Associate-Editor of the Int. J. of Product Development (IJPD), and Vice-Chair for Europe and Africa of the IFIP Working Group WG5.1 on global product development. He also lead two Erasmus-Mundus programs in the area and acts as Expert for several research agencies in Europe and America.
	Deba Dutta is Dean of the Graduate College and Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research is in global product development and lifecycle management. From 1989 until 2009 he was at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and during 2004-07 he served at the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of ASME and the past chair of two ACM Solid Modeling Symposia (1999 and 2001), the past chair of ASME Design Automation Conference (1997) and a member of ASEE and AAAS.
TRK 14 Human Factors and Cognitive Engineering
	Franck Mars is a researcher in cognitive ergonomics, with a background in psychology and neuroscience. He has been a tenured CNRS researcher at IRCCyN since 2004 and is now the leader of the PsyCoTec team. He develops an approach of driver modeling and human-machine interaction in vehicles at the crossroads of experimental psychology, ergonomics and engineering sciences. He participated to various national and European consortiums, recently leading the PREVENSOR project. He is also a member of the Intelligence of Embedded Systems steering committee for the ID4CAR cluster. More information can be found on his webpage.
	Caroline G. L. Cao is the Director of the Human Factors Program in the School of Engineering, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Founding Director of the Ergonomics in Remote Environments Laboratory (EREL) at Tufts University. Her research focus is in human factors of medical systems, including the design and evaluation of enabling technology (e.g., robotics, image guidance, haptics) for minimally invasive surgery, training of surgical skills in training simulators, and decision-making and team communication in the operating room.
TRK 15 Biomedical Engineering
	Dominique Barthes-Biesel is Professor in the Research group Biomechanics and Bioengineering (UMR CNRS 6600) of the Bioengineering Department of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC). Her present research interest deals with capsules transport in microfluidic devices, microcapsule and cell biomechanics, modeling of fluid-structure interactions in the viscous regime. She is associate editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Vice-president of the World Council for Biomechancis.
	Professor C. Ross Ethier (PhD FASME FARVO FAIMBE) received a B.Sc. (Eng.) in Mathematics & Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in 1980, an M. Math degree at the University of Waterloo in 1982, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at M.I.T. in 1983 and 1986. His first academic appointment was in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1986. From 1 August 2007 he has been Professor of Biomechanics and Head of the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London. He was an NSERC Steacie Fellow in 1997-99, a von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremburg in 1999/2000 and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Computational Technology (2001-2007). He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering; the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; and the International Federation of Biomedical Engineering. He serves on the editorial board of three journals, on the World Council of Biomechanics and on Scientific Review Committee of the American Health Assistance Foundation. Professor Ethier's field is biomechanics, with specific interests in the pathogenesis of glaucoma, atherogenesis and the mechanobiology of connective tissue diseases. He now leads a Wellcome Trust/EPSRC-funded centre at Imperial on Medical Engineering Solutions in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis.
TRK 16 Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Tissues
	Dr. Elisa Budyn is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on mechanics of biological tissues. Thanks to close collaborations with scientists, physicists and medical  surgeons, Dr. Budyn constructs numerical methods to model and investigate the nature of the mechanical microenvironment near human cells in connective and mineralized tissues. Elisa Budyn graduated her  Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2004. She then earned a CNRS post-doctoral fellowship to study for a year in the CNRS LMSSMat Laboratory at École Centrale Paris, after which she joined UIC in 2005.
	Prof. Thierry Hoc joined École Centrale Lyon in 2009 where he now leads the biomechanics group at the CNRS LTDS Laboratory. Before joining École Centrale Lyon, he was Assistant Professor at École Centrale Paris where he worked on the characterisation of the material properties of pure metals and initiated nanoscale testing on bone tissues. He received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2008. Since April 2010, He leads the IVTV project awarded by the Agence National pour la Recherche (ANR) on Engineering and Studying Aging in Biological Tissues.
TRK 17 Sciences, Engineering and Education
	Philippe Dépincé is a professor at the École Centrale de Nantes (France). He obtained the École Centrale de Nantes Engineering degree in 1990 and received a PhD in mechanical engineering from the École Centrale de Nantes in 1993. He is a researcher at the Cybernetic and Communication Research Institute of Nantes (IRCCyN). His research interests are linked to Design and Manufacturing processes and includes, among other fields, Computer Aided Process Planning, Design optimization (AI tools such as Multi-Agents Systems and Decision aided) and multidisciplinary and multicriteria optimization. Since 2007, he is the dean of studies of École Centrale Nantes in charge of engineering and master studies.
	Dr. Waguih H. ElMaraghy is Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE), Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor. He is also Co-Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre, a center of research excellence for product design, and manufacturing systems design and operation. He is the author of over 200 publications, and over 100 industry reports. In addition, he holds several patents and co-edited five books. He participates and presents research results and keynote papers nationally and internationally. Dr. ElMaraghy's latest CIRP keynote paper contributions are in the area of Complexity Management and 'Engineering Design as Collaborative Negotiation (ECN). Dr. ElMaraghy is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, as well as in his native Egypt. He is an elected Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), as well as a Senior Member of the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and Honorary Fellow of Engineers Canada. Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy is active in professional service, including Curriculum Development and Accreditation. He is a member of the Academic Requirements Committee (ARC) of Professional Engineers Ontario, volunteer in Engineers Canada Committees, and a participant in UNDP TOKTEN Projects.
TRK 18 Multiphysics
	Laurent Stainier has been Professor of Mechanics at École Centrale Nantes since 2008. He previously held a position of Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). His research interests focus on developing multiscale, multiphysics modeling approaches for numerical simulation in nonlinear solid mechanics and structural dynamics. In particular, he is one of the main contributors to a novel energy-based variational approach to irreversible behaviors, such as coupled thermo-visco-plasticity. He serves as elected board member of the French Associations of Computational Mechanics (CSMA) and Mechanics of Materials (Mecamat).
	Massimo Guarnieri was born near Venice, Italy, in 1955. He graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering at Padua in 1979, received the master degree in Plasma and Thermonuclear Fusion Research in 1982 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Science in Rome in 1987. In 1982 he joined the CNR (Italian National Council of Researches) and in 1983 the University of Padua, where he is full professor of electrical engineering from 2000. Initially he centered his work on the analysis and design of large electromagnetic devices for the Eta-Beta II experiment, then next on the RFX experiment, both related to the thermonuclear fusion research. He later moved his interests in the area of the innovative computational electromagnetism and coupled problems. In the last years he has concentrated on Fuel Cells modeling and parameters identification. He wrote several test books and is also widely interested in history of technology and science. He has led a number of projects supported by the Italian Government. He authored over 130 scientific papers, almost all published in international journals and in international congress proceedings, and over twenty books. He was a co-chairman of some international congresses and is a columnist of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine.
TRK 19 Emerging Technologies for Inspection and Reverse Engineering
	Prof. A. Bernard graduated in 1982, received his Ph.D. in 1989, and was Associate Professor from 1990-96 in Centrale Paris. From September 1996 to October 2001, he was Professor at CRAN, Nancy I, on the Integrated Design and Manufacturing team. Since 0ctober 2001, he has been Professor at Centrale Nantes and Dean for Research. He is in IRCCyN in the System Engineering Product-Performance-Perception team. His research topics are KM, system modeling, interoperability, performance evaluation, virtual engineering and rapid product development. He published more than 60 papers in refereed international journals. He is Chairman of WG5.1 of IFIP and Vice-Chairman of CIRP STC Design.
	Prof. Anath Fischer is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (IIT). She has supervised 25 graduate students and is currently leading a group of eight researchers and graduate students. Her major research interests are computational metrology and virtual and rapid prototyping for engineering and medical applications. She and her team have developed methods for a) Geometric processing and surface/volumetric reconstruction of scanned data and b) Geometric modeling for mechanical analysis. Prof. Fischer has published over 145 papers in academic journals, including IEEE CAD J., ASME Trans. JCISE, CIRP, IJNME, VPP and at international conferences, including Shape Modeling and App., Solid Modeling and Appl. She is on the editorial boards of ASME Trans. JCISE and Virtual and Physical Prototyping journals. She has been program chair, conference co-chair and IPC member in international, including several bi-international conferences. Prof. Fischer has received the Gutwirth and Taub awards for excellence in research. She has also been involved in international scientific and industrial projects across Europe including EU projects. She was also involved in medical projects with hospitals that relates to developing of diagnostic system for large-scaled micro-structures.
TRK 20 Design Engineering
	Chris McMahon is Professor of Engineering Design in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath and, until September 2011, Director of its Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre. With experience in the railway, aerospace and automotive industries, Chris teaches and researches in engineering design with particular emphasis on how computer aids can assist in the Organizationorganization and management of the information used in design. An author of over 300 papers on design-related topics, Chris is currently President of the Design Society and Associate Editor of the ASME's Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He also has additional editorial responsibilities.
	Daniel Brissaud has been a Professor of Engineering Design and Eco-design at the Institute of Technology at the University of Grenoble (Grenoble-INP) since 1998. He is head of the cluster of research "Management and Organization of Production Systems and Innovation" for the Rhône-Alpes area, member of the European Manufacturing and Innovation Research Association "EMIRAcle," CIRP fellow. He was head of the doctoral studies in Industrial Organizations and production systems. His scientific interests are: Eco-design, environmental assessment, lifecycle engineering, clean technologies, product-service systems design, integrated design and requirement engineering. He authored over 200 papers on design and eco-design topics.
TRK 21 Advanced Materials and Tribology
	Dr. Daniele Dini is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, where he has held an academic post since 2006. Prior to that, he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Engineering Science in 2004. His areas of expertise and current interests are contact mechanics, fretting and contact fatigue, advanced materials and lubrication modeling, wear modeling, biotribology, multiscale modeling and coupling algorithms in fluids and solids, solid/fluid interactions modeling, molecular dynamics simulations of confined lubrication, advanced numerical methods in tribology and CFD applied to lubrication. His work also spans across the fields of advanced modeling techniques for crystal plasticity in polycrystalline structures, X-Ray and neutron diffraction characterization of residual stresses and various aspects of fracture mechanics. His work attracts funding from UK and EU governing bodies and various industrial partners (e.g. SKF, Rolls-Royce, GKN, Bosch). Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Solids and Structures, Dr. Dini sits on a number of international committees and editorial boards. He is also the recipient of five international awards.
	Daniel Nélias is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at INSA Lyon. His research deals with contact mechanics (effect of plasticity and inhomogeneities on running-in, rolling contact fatigue or fretting wear), the modeling of rolling element bearings, the characterization of materials at high temperature or after high rate thermal loading, and the numerical simulation of processes such as welding. He is the co-author of more than 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has been the mentor of 21 MSc and 18 Ph.D. students. He is also an active member of the ASME, currently vice-chair and treasurer of the Tribology Division.